Buses run          (频繁地) between the city and the airport.

Several           (招待会) have been held in the big all this month.

One of his colleagues was          (被怀疑) of stealing.

When the US           (军队) will be pulled out of Iraq is unknown.

The foreigner was astonished to hear about the Xi’an             (事件).

It is no use           (使确信) him of the story.

---- Hello. Can I speak to Wu Ming please?

----   61  .

---- Hello, Wu Ming. This is Wang Hong. Sorry to ring you so late in the evening, but I’ve only just got home.

----   62   What’s the news?

---- I’d like to ask you about some stamps. Do you still have the cock year stamp? You had it when I last saw you.

---- I’m afraid I don’t have it. I sold it last week.

----   63  .

---- I’m sorry. I didn’t know you wanted it.   64 

----Yes, please. Thank you. It’s very kind of you.

----   65 

---- Thank you very much.

---- Bye bye.

       A．Do you like collecting stamps so much?

       B．That’s all right.

       C．Sorry, Wu Ming is out.

       D．Do you want me to find one for you?

       E．Oh, what a pity!

       F．Yes, speaking.

       G．OK, I’ll ring you if I have any news.

Experts have put forward detailed plans for a tunnel (隧道) to  join Taiwan with the Chinese mainland.

The shortest proposed(建议) route would be 126 kilometers-more than twice the length of the English Channel Tunnel. And the longest proposed route would be 207 kilometers.

    A recent conference in Xiamen, Fujian Province brought together more than 70 experts. The event was co-sponsored (共同发展) by universities from Taiwan and the Chinese mainland.    Fujian is the province where both proposed routes would begin.

    There is no direct passenger access between the mainland and Taiwan by air or sea at the moment. Experts say that it is better to start research sooner rather than later, although there is a lack of government funding. There are no technical problems to build a Taiwan tunnel. But it will require an improved political relationship across the Straits.

    A professor of Tsinghua university said, “A special feature of huge projects is that the period of preparation is longer than the period of construction.”

    For example, he said, the English Channel Tunnel took 14 years of planning and had been discussed for two centuries. And preparations for the huge Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River began in the 1950s.

    The Xiamen conference focused on the longest southern route, which would use the Taiwan-controlled islands of Jinmen and Penghu as stepping stones.

    The first stage of the new project could be a bridge to cross the five kilometers between Xiamen and Jinmen. This would mean that travelling from Xiamen to Jinmen by car would only take five minutes.

    The longest tunnel now being planned anywhere in the world is the 54-kilometer Land tunnel to link Lyon in France with Turin in Italy. The tunnel will not be completed until 2015-2020.

49．Which is the longest tunnel in the world at present?

      A．The English Channel Tunnel.              B．The tunnel between Lyon and Turin.

      C．The Taiwan Straits tunnel.                 D．The passage doesn't mention it.

50．The example of English Channel Tunnel shows _______.

      A．it’s not easy to complete a huge project

      B．there are many problems to be solved before doing something

      C．discussions among countries usually take a lot of time

      D．the preparation takes longer time than the construction

51．Which of the following is NOT true?

      A．Universities both at home and abroad have sponsored (赞助) the plan.

      B．If the project is completed, the world's longest tunnel will appear.

      C．You can’t reach Taiwan from the mainland directly at present.

      D．The starting point of the proposed tunnel is in Fujian.

52．What is the possible difficulty in carrying out the plan?

      A．The lack of money for the project from the government.

      B．Improving the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

      C．The detailed plans for the tunnel.

      D．The technical problems with the tunnel.

They stood outside the door two children in shabby outgrown coats.

“Any old papers, lady?”

I was busy, I wanted to say no until I saw the snow on their clothes. And their little sandals (凉鞋) were also covered with snow.

“Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”

There was no conversation. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and toast with jam to strengthen them against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household.

The silence in the front room got me to look inside. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”

“Am I rich? Mercy, no! ”

I looked at my shabby sofa. The girl put her cup back in its saucer carefully.

“Your cups match your saucers, she said.”

They left then, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. Plain blue cups and saucers. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and looked at the meat. Potatoes and meat, the roof over my head, my man with a good steady job these things matched, too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and tidied the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there in case I ever forget again how very rich I am.

41．Why did the author let the two children in?

       A．To offer them some warm clothes

       B．To serve them some cocoa and food

       C．To sell them some old paper

       D．To show off her matched cups and saucers

42．What can be seen from the passage is that          .

       A．the author was very rich and unkind

       B．the children took away the cups and saucers

       C．the author’s husband had a steady job

       D．the two children were looking for jobs.

43．It can be inferred from the passage that          .

       A．it was snowing outside when the story happened

       B．the two children put some money on the table before leaving.

       C．the two children had never seen a matched cup and saucer.

       D．the author gave the cups and saucers to the two children

44．The best title of the story would be “        .”

      A．Any Old Papers, Lady?                         B．Lady, Are You Rich?

       C．Two Matched Cups and Saucers           D．A Rich Lady and Two Children

    Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia (栀子花) was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it.   21   to the flower shop were always useless it was a cash   22  . After a while I stopped trying to   23  who the sender was and just delighted in the beauty and perfume of the white flower. But I never   24  imagining who the sender might be. Some of my   25  moments were spent daydreaming about it.

My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(n)  26  kindness who might be showing   27  . Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was   28  a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man   29  the street whose mail I helped to get during the   30  so he wouldn’t have to venture down his icy step.   31  a teenager, though, I had more fun guessing that it might be a   32  who had noticed me   33  I didn’t know him.

One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. He was  34   some of the most important events in my life. I became completely   35  in my upcoming graduation and the dance. When my father died, I   36  the dance and the dress for it. The next day before the dance, I found a dress on the sofa. I didn’t  37   if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did.

She wanted her children to feel   38  and lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a    magic in the world and   39   in the face of hard times. Actually mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-loveable,   40  and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died.